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October Clearance Sale, (ct. 18th to 26th
~ Wait for your Brass Beds, Dressers, Din
- ing Tables, and Chairs.
We are giving all people a chance to save from
20 to 30 per cent. on your Furniture, Rugs.
- Ranges and everthing in the House
_ i Furnishing Line. .
Big October Clearing Sale Begins Friday
CORNER MAIN AND TELC A~ MIL LEIE?.E‘ FITZGERALD
PINE STREETS T rors RET IS Goos I~ _ GEORGIA
Live Stock And
How to Exhibit It
How to prepare live stock for
the Fair and how live stock should
be displayed after they have been
taken taken to the Fair, are ques
tions of vital importance at this
time. Prof. Milton P. Jarnagin,
at the head of the department of
Animal Industry of the State Col
‘lege of Agriculture, issues the
following helpful suggestions on
the subject:
“Education of the spectators is
the motive that impels the fair
association to provide a premium
list to encourage the exhibition
of live stock. In order that this
may accomplish the most good,
ample pens and sheds should be
provided for displaying the ani
mals to the greatest possible ad
vantage. A satisfying judging
ring should by all means be pro
vided on every fair ground. Any
level piece of land will suffice.
A ring about 50x50 feet should
be enclosed with ropes to keep
visitors back so that all may have
an equal opportunity for observ
ing. Much canbe learned by com
paring the first prize animals with
the others that did not receive
such favorable rating. The judge
at such fairs is always willing to
make full and complete explana
tions of why he places one ani
mal above another. This will go
a long way towards getting the
correct typeof the various classes
of live stock definitely fixed in
the minds of the farmers.
‘““While fairly liberal momey
prizes are offered, the breeder
receives the greatest benefit
from the advertisement arising
from successful competition in
the show ring, and nothing should
be left undone that might mean
a difference between a failure in
the competition.
All cattle and horses intended
for exhibit should be thoroughly
halter-broken in advance of the
show. It is then possible to show
them to the best advantage, and
the man with a well—mannered.‘
nicely behaved colt stands a much
better chance for winning a blue
ribbon than the one with a colt
that has to be chased all around
the fair grounds in order for the
judge to catch a glimspe of him.
Neat halters should be provided
for all exhibition animals. They
do not necessarily have to be
costly. In fact, a very satisfac
tory show halter can be made
from a few cents worth of new,
clean rope, with but little ex
pense.
““All show animals should be
washed perfectly clean with Cas
tile soap, as it tends to soften the
hair. A little trimming and clip
§ping about the ears and other
regions where the hair stands up
long and rough will materially
improve the appearanceof the
animals. Hogs should be washed
clean and placed in pens that
have been well-bedded with clean
straw. A little sweet oil rub
bed into their hair will also im
prove their appearance notice
ably.
“There will be but little time
before many of the shows, so that
none should be lost in handling,
brushing, trimming and fitting
any animals for the show. In
the end, this additional work will
be paid for many times more.”
Girl Is a Notary.
Thomasville, Ga., Oect. 13.
Miss Lillian Farmer, of this city,
has been appointed notary pub
lic and is the first woman from
Thomas county to hold the office.
Miss Farmer is employed in the
office of Hon. W. L. Maclntyre,
former representative to the leg
islature from this county, and the
member who introduced the bill
giving women the right to hold
office. It is something of a coin
cidence that the first appoinst
ment made in this section should
be an employe of the father of
the bill. ‘
Mr. Ed. Brown Weds
Miss Jennie Mashburn
After scheming 24 hours to out
wit the parents of the bride, who
objected to the match, Miss Jennie
Mashburn and Mr. Ed. Brown
were quietly married yesterday
at 12:15 in the Express Office in
the Atlanta, Birmingham & At
lantic depot, Ordinary C. M. Wise
performing the ceremony, in the
presence of the express clerks
and several other witnesses.
The young couple had planned
to marry Sunday night, but the
bride’s parents learned of their
plans and prevented it. All the
ministers of the city were re
quested not to perform the cere
mony, but the erstwhile groom
overcame this obstacle by procur
ing the services of the Ordinary.
The bride left her home yester
day morning on the pretense of
going out to spend the day with
a friend, having previously re
turned the groom’s wedding
ring to assure her parents that
the engagement had been broken.
But insteak of going to a friend’s
home, she notified the groom that
the coast was clear and that she
would meet him at the noon train,
and as Ordinary Wise spoke the
[ast words of the marriage ser
vice, they boarded the train
which had already begun to move.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Mashburn,
and a grand-daughter of Hon. R.
V. Bowen. She is an attractive
young woman, and is very popu
lar with a large circle of friends.
The groom is a highly esteem
ed engineer in the employ of the
A., B. & A. and ranks high in
the service. He has many friends
in Fitzgerald who are eager to
congratulate him upon winning
so fair a bride.
After spending several days in
Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs. Brown
will be at home to their friends
in Manchester,
Absinthe and Divorce.
Atlanta, Oct. 14.—The argu
ment that absinthe had been
barred from this country and that
her husband couldn’t get any
more of it after a month or two,
had no effect on the decision of
Mrs. E. F. Dwinnell, of this city,
in her suit for divorce.
The charges she brought against
Mr. Dwinnell were that he was
addicted to the use of the green
liquor, and that when under its
influence his chief pastime was
to stand her up against a wall
and throw electric light bulbs at
her, laughing in fiendish glee
each time one of them hit her and
exploded with a loud pop.
Her attention was called to the
fact that Uncle Sam had removed
her husband’s chief temptation
by prohibiting the further impor
tation of absinthe, but the fact
did not altar her determition to
be separated from him. '
““If you had ever heard one of
those globes explode and crash
into a thousand splinters,’’ she
said to the judge, ‘‘you would
not be surprised when I tell you
that | wouldn’t dare to live with
him again under any circum
stances.”’
40 Days During Year
- Riding on Street Cars
Atlanta, Oct. 14.—Atlantians
who work down town and live as
far as fifteen minutes’ away from
the business section. spend about
40 working days of the entire
year riding on the cars, according
to figures just compiled here.
It is figured that the average
business man is on the street car
about an hour a day in all. There
are 315 working days in the year,
of which eight hours is an aver
age length. Take one hour for
riding out of every 313 and you
get a fraction less than forty
working days. 5
Showalter Faces
Charge Of Bigamy
‘ Chattanooga, Tenn, Oct, 10—
gProperty to the value of $75,000 of
’ A. J. Showalter, composer of the pop
‘ular Sunday school hymn, “Leaning
oon the Everlasting Arms,” and other
hymns, and one of t he widely
known publishers in the South, with
plants in Dalton, Ga, and Dallas
Texas, was tied up by attachment
today when suit was filed in chan- ]
cery court asking that his marriage
to Eleanor Dorsey be set aside as
void. The bill wasfiled by his form
er wife, Mrs. C. W. Showalter, and
alleges that the marriage to Eleanor
Dorsey is void and bigamus; that
the decree secured divorcing her
was fraudulently obtained.
Showalter was granted a divorce
in Chattanooga, June 11, 1912. The
former wife says she was never serv
ed with a notice of the proceedings.
The bill alleges that the decree for
divorce was void as the the court
did not have jurisdiction. It charges
hat there was no affidavit attached
to the bill as prescribed.
The bill charges that no attest
was made by a notary public as is
required and that the supposed affi
davit was not sworn to.
Bonded Indebtedness
Of State Due in 1915
Atlanta, Oct. 14.—Prominent
among the questions of state
finance that will come up during
the incumbency of Governor John
M. Slaton, wlll be that of
the state’s indebtedness, which
amounts to about Three and Three
Quarters Million Dollars, and
and which falls due in 1915,
How the debt is to be handled
is a question that has not yet
been worked out. One sugges
tion has been made that a special
one mill tax be levied to create
a sinking fund to gradually take
care of the principal of the debt;
another suggestion has been that
the present five-mill tax can be
so divided as to provide for such
a sinking fund. Under any cir
cumstances it is a big question,
which will require much thought.
Georgia State Fair
Will Open on Time and All
Things Point to The
Greaiest Fair Ever
Pulled Off in the
Empire State.
~ One great- hustling army of
workmen down at the Georgia
State Fair grounds at Macon is
making ready for one of the
greatest and grandest fairs ever
pulled off. The music of the
hammer and saw can be heard at
every turn, and one has only to go
and see the great preparations
that are being made to - assure
oneself that will be the biggest
fair ever attempted.
Not alone is this great work
being carried on at the fair
grounds, but the merchants are
working to have their stores in
holiday attire and ready for the
big crowd that is coming.
The State Fair grounds are
decorated as never before and
the flags flutter to the breezes
from every flag pole and beckon
to the people of this great State
to come on—we are ready for
you.
Every building has been taxed
to its capacity to take care of the
exhibits. True to the spirit of
the Fair directors, headed by Pres
ident W. M. Dunwordy and Sec
retary H. C. Roberts, they have
all been provided for in fine style.
There will be more agricultural
exhibits this year than ever shown
before. This on account of the
great prominence that Georgia
has taken in the list of agricul
tural States. We expect thous
ands of farmers from the North
and Northwest to come and pay
us a visit. Mr. E. H. Hymna,
general-secretary of the Macon .
Chamber of Commerce, has sev
eral showers showing that the
farmers are coming in large nam
bers from Illinois amd Indiana.
If they like us they will come and
live with us, :